Dr. Jeff Cumro - Stopping Stress and Optimizing Health

Dr. Jeff Cumro - Stopping Stress and Optimizing Health Helping people overcome Entrepreneurial Neurodevelopmental Disorders and other stress-related illnesses.

Why is the term "sitting is the new smoking" going around?Because spending more time sitting is associated with a great ...
12/10/2025

Why is the term "sitting is the new smoking" going around?

Because spending more time sitting is associated with a great increase in chronic diseases.

While many of us are in positions that require sitting (work, school, etc...), there are workarounds to these situations.

Chiropractic care works to optimize joint function, which is often diminished by these activities. By restoring these dysfunctions, exercise becomes easier and less painful, while sitting takes less energy (due to being less painful).

Taking mobility breaks (going to the bathroom, getting a drink, etc...) every hour can help us get out of the static positioning, but also re-energize and focus us.

Taking the time in the mornings and evenings (and really even over lunch) can help us minimize metabolic challenges, decrease inflammation and help boost mental health.

Having a plan is the place to start. When we have a plan of how to attack our day, it minimizes the thought required to keep us on track.

Brain fog isn't a normal state.It isn't due to genetics or ageing.It is most frequently due to stress and/or inflammatio...
12/09/2025

Brain fog isn't a normal state.

It isn't due to genetics or ageing.

It is most frequently due to stress and/or inflammation.

Working to figure out which scenario is causing 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘨 is the first path forward.

Once, we know the cause, finding the right answers to move forward - like brain function - often becomes more clear.

Antibiotics are responsible for saving, and destroying many lives.While they have helped us avoid death from serious inf...
12/09/2025

Antibiotics are responsible for saving, and destroying many lives.

While they have helped us avoid death from serious infections, they have also contributed to our chronic disease epidemic (multiple studies show these links, including diseases like autoimmunity, asthma and more).

Instead of looking for newer, more powerful antibiotics, we would likely be ahead by:

A. Using the ones we have more responsibly (the irresponsible usage has led to many of the resistant strains and other problems we are currently fighting).

B. Promoting a healthy lifestyle. A lifestyle that is going to help boost immune function and hopefully keep us from being in the position of needing these types of drugs in the first place.

We have wrongly villified fats for decades.When we eat the 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘴, it actually helps promote better healt...
12/09/2025

We have wrongly villified fats for decades.

When we eat the 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘴, it actually helps promote better health.

This is even more true for the younger generations, as their brain and body grows and develops.

Imagine working in a factory and trying to make something functional out of a bunch of rejected pieces and scraps. It probably isn't going to turn out how you originally designed it, right?

The same thing happens in the brain/body. When we don't have the building blocks that we need, we use substitutes that often aren't a perfect fit for those functions. While they work, they aren't as flexible or as functional, leaving us in a vulnerable position.

The coolest part?

If you are curious how you are doing, there is a blood test that can assess your balance of these types of fats that can help us determine if you are in an inflammatory state (destroying health) or a healthy state (promoting function).

Comment below for more details.

We've all seen the elderly people that are bent forward and every motion looks difficult for them, right?I want you to d...
12/08/2025

We've all seen the elderly people that are bent forward and every motion looks difficult for them, right?

I want you to do a quick experiment and slouch forward as far as you can.

How easy is it to take a breath?

As you hold that position longer and longer, how comfortable is it?

How do you feel? Confident and poised? Stressed and depressed?

Our posture has a strong correlation to a lot of other areas of health.

It affects our breathing, gut function, balance, stress levels, mental health and more.

We aren't stuck with the posture that we have, though. Yes, the longer a position has been held, the more work it takes to reverse, but as we put in that work our health generally starts to improve.

Does your posture reflect who you want to be?

Our time on Earth is very limited and unfortunately, many today are living those years with at least one chronic illness...
12/08/2025

Our time on Earth is very limited and unfortunately, many today are living those years with at least one chronic illness (many with more than one).

Most of those health challenges are linked to our lifestyle.

How much, and how efficiently, we move (chiropractic care directly addresses this with the chiropractic adjustment).

How much quality sleep we get (chiropractic care help improve the quality of sleep in many studies).

The nutrition we take in (chiropractors have significant training in nutrition versus minimal (and more frequently none) in other healthcare professions).

How our body handles stress (chiropractic again addresses this, as the adjustment has been shown to improve our stress handling capabilities).

You are not stuck with your current level of health, and the sooner you make the move in the direction of better health, the more of that limited time we have on this Earth you'll be able to enjoy.

If you are looking to improve your focus, attention and performance, omega 3 intake is an area you may want to explore (...
12/07/2025

If you are looking to improve your focus, attention and performance, omega 3 intake is an area you may want to explore (particularly DHA).

DHA is biased toward the prefrontal cortex (the area that controls these functions), and is linked to a better quality life.

Once that DHA starts to erode, not only are we more likely to have slips into impulsivity and emotionality, but we can become more susceptible to dementia and other brain-related diseases.

Health is more than just one area - but if you are going to focus on one area, the brain is a great place to start.

The gut is among the most important systems in the body. When we don't have proper gut function, it throws off so many o...
12/07/2025

The gut is among the most important systems in the body.

When we don't have proper gut function, it throws off so many other aspects of health.

Sadly, many of the things that we do affect our gut function. This can include medications, with many of the most popular types of medications (most frequently prescribed) affecting the gut for 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 after they have been stopped.

By focusing on actions to improve gut function, we can take our health to new levels - remember the gut is often referred to as the "second brain".

When I got diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroid disease), I was told to "Get used to it, because y...
12/06/2025

When I got diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (autoimmune thyroid disease), I was told to "Get used to it, because you're stuck with it."

I may be a little more stubborn than most people, however, that didn't sit well with me.

It took me a few years, but I found the cause of my thyroid issues (yours may be totally different in nature).

Since that time, I have been completely off of medications for over a decade with normal thyroid lab markers.

You may not be facing thyroid disease, maybe yours is diabetes, another form of autoimmunity, heart disease or something else.

Eighty percent of chronic diseases are linked to lifestyle, though, meaning that if we find what's causing the issue we can often use lifestyle changes to improve function (every case is different).

Know that just because you have a chronic disease doesn't mean that you are stuck with it - you just haven't found the right answers 𝙮𝙚𝙩.

This statistic sums up a lot of what we are facing in our society.More and more chronic diseases are wrecking our health...
12/06/2025

This statistic sums up a lot of what we are facing in our society.

More and more chronic diseases are wrecking our health and finances.

More and more people are left debilitated.

More and more we are seeing that this doesn't have to be the case!

Up to 80% of the chronic health conditions we face are lifestyle diseases. This means that by exercising more, sleeping better, eating right, stopping smoking, etc... can help us avoid - or recover from - most of these diseases.

But we have to change the narrative. We have more power than we've been led to believe.

In most cases, we don't need more medications, we just need a perspective shift.

Feel like you are getting shorter as you age?You're not alone. Gravity takes a toll on us over the years. Even on a 24 h...
12/06/2025

Feel like you are getting shorter as you age?

You're not alone. Gravity takes a toll on us over the years.

Even on a 24 hour basis, we lose up to 20% of the disc height!

Working to move in a variety of ranges of motion, getting adjusted and using inversion tables are examples of some things that may help reduce this process (consult your chiropractor to discuss your specific condition).

If stress is playing too big of a role in your health, making a few changes can save you a lot of trouble down the road....
12/05/2025

If stress is playing too big of a role in your health, making a few changes can save you a lot of trouble down the road.

Having a healthier, less inflammatory (less processed foods) diet can be a great start.

Getting plenty of movement can help to minimize how much this stress impacts you.

Getting adequate sleep sets you up to face the day with more resources.

The bottom line is, the more energy you have (better metabolism), the more you are going to be able to resist the stresses that life throws our direction every day.

While there are multiple ways of going about this, certain people will see more benefit from one area than another. Focus on your weakest area first, and you're likely to get the biggest boost.

And yes, you might be thinking, "I don't need one more thing to do". But while you are adding a task, you are increasing efficiency, which most of the people I have worked with have reported actually helped them feel like the day required less of them (they had more time/attention left over).

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